Not that great of a loss. The servos and Receiver are all old, and I was going to replace them all with a digital system this winter. Aside from the servos which were still usable, there wasn't any loss.
It was a very majestic sinking though. (Anybody have any Sloop sinking screenshots from SH3 to illustrate?)
Was way ahead of the fleet, running downwind, fast and hard. Started to submarine the boat a bit, then it caught the water the wrong way and pitch poled. Ie, it did a hand stand. Bow down, mast horizontal, rudder completely out of the water, keel mostly out of the water. Hatch cover popped off. I tried running for the beach as fast as possible, didnt care where, just wanted it shallow. No luck, another wave filled it beyond hope, and down she went. I think I will forever have that image of the top of her mast disappearing beneath the water burned in my brain.
One guy almost immediately started singing the Edmund Fitzgerald song.
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